Szabo’s excellent essay on the specific trade-offs that empower Satoshi’s brilliant solution to the scaling of trust across human institutions.  Listen if you are ready to learn.Link to his blog and the full article with lfurther links to explore the topics discussed:https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

With so many new features, tricks, and protocol changes, what will it be like to use lightning?  What will Carol, the user, need to know?  Listen to Bryan Vu’s story of Carol’s first day with Lightning from the Lightning Labs Blog. Link to the blog and full article:https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/05/02/lightning-ux.html Don’t forget to check out their other…

Splicing Payments, Submarine Swaps, Atomic Swaps, Dual-Funded Channels, Eltoo, Channel Factories, AMPS, and More!  Listen to Aaron’s recent article to hear more of the awesome potential and the future of the Lightning Network.  Listen to the end for a special thank you for all the increxible work at Bitcoin Magazine and the always reliable Aaron Van Wirdum!Link to…

The Lightning network is a new protocol layer that not only has implications for Bitcoin payments, but could hugely impact many altcoins, decentralized exchanges, and the nature of crypto payments for the entire ecosystem.  Learn more about its benefits from another of Aaron van Wirdum’s excellent articles with Bitcoin Magazine.Link to the article on Bitcoin Magazine:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/atomic-swaps-how-the-lightning-network-extends-to-altcoins-1484157052/ —…

An introduction to Channel Factories and the concept of a new Layer 2 protocol that could shift the Lightning Network into Layer 3.  Is this another piece of the puzzle to building a global payment system?  From Michiel Mulders with Bitcoin Magazine, listen to learn more details. Link to the article @BitcoinMagazine:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/new-scaling-layer-could-make-payment-channels-ten-times-more-effective/ — Send in a voice message:…